Wusong Fort.

"Fire, you dog thieves, don't shoot yet!"

Jiangnan Admiral You Bo roared.

The officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion in front of him, as well as the regimental trainers who assisted in the defense, looked at each other one by one but did not make a move, although the hundreds of cannons on the rebuilt battery in front of them were all aimed at the river ahead, and there was even a new imitation of the British 68-pounder coastal defense cannon, which could shoot shells for five miles and point to the channel of the river, and they were all loaded with ammunition, but they were ......

But no one lit the fire.

All officers and soldiers did not move.

Let Admiral Yu roar there, and even encourage him with loyalty, and simply beg them to fight for our Qing Dynasty! But everyone was still standing there indifferently, even Sun Shanbao, the governor of Jiangsu, who was supervising the war, and Mu Jiu of Su Song Taidao Palace were all looking at each other.

On the river in front of them, the Ming steam warships dragged the sail battleships and slowly sailed up the current to approach Wusongkou, and those towering sail battleships still carried traces of battle, and those British soldiers standing on the deck under the supervision of the Ming soldiers showed their identities in a shameful way......

"Trafalgar, St. George, Blenheim, Medway, Agincourt, Russell, Defence, Pitt, what's behind? The Pembroke Shipper? The Indus? The majesty of the British Empire is lost in the East, the invincible fleet, with the mark of shame, sails on the great rivers of the East, the greatest defeat of the Royal Navy in two hundred years, holds up the rise of an empire, the light of the sun and the moon shines on the world, and here we are arrogantly trying to shoot at them with cannons! ”

A British instructor held up a telescope and muttered to himself.

"What are you talking about, Mr. Murray?"

Gong Mujiu, who was beside him, asked in a low voice.

"Your Excellency, I'm saying,"

Murray paused for a moment, then said in a lower voice: "Surrender, I advise you as a friend, there is no hope for you, there will be no more Royal Navy fleets to arrive, and the war between the Ming and the British is over." ”

Gong Mujiu looked at him expressionlessly.

At this time, You Bo was already furious and pounced on a sixty-eight-pounder coastal defense cannon, this Gansu governor of Jiangnan, snatched the ignition rod of the gunner, kicked this guy who was obviously not loyal enough to the Qing Dynasty, and with his loyalty to the emperor of our Qing Dynasty, he did not hesitate to put the arquebus pestle towards the ignition hole......

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out.

You Bo suddenly fell on the cannon, he turned back with the blood gushing out of his back, and looked at Governor Sun behind him in disbelief, originally in history, Concubine Yi and the former celebrity Sun Yuwen were holding a smoking short gun in his hand.

"Why?"

You Bo roared with grief and indignation like Ma Jingtao.

"Bang!"

Another gunshot rang out in response.

It's just that this time the firing was replaced by Miyadotai.

The bullet hit You Bo's head, and the head of the last Jiangnan Admiral of the Qing Dynasty was splashed with flesh and blood, and the dead body slowly slipped from the cannon under the gaze of thousands of subordinates, even those pro-soldiers. There was silence in the entire fort, everyone looked at his dead body twitching blankly, Sun Shanbao and Gong Mujiu, two fellow villagers from Dongping, looked at each other with a wry smile, and then Sun Shanbao raised the short gun in his hand......

"Welcome!"

He shouted with a solemn countenance.

On the sixth day of September in the autumn of 216 years of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Shanbao, the puppet governor of Jiangsu, Su Songtai, prepared the Dao Palace Mu Jiu, and surrendered to Songjiang Mansion and Taicang Zhili Prefecture, and the Emperor of God was responsible for the rebellion, Sun and the palace two bowed their heads and asked for their crimes, and the Emperor forgave their sins and sent them back to their original places of origin. Five days later, Jiangxi Jing'an pseudo Suzhou prefect Shu Huamin surrendered to Suzhou, and the puppet officials of Suzhou Mansion were all in accordance with the Songjiang Mansion, and then Haimen Hall, Nantong Prefecture, and Langshan Town all surrendered, and the Emperor's army went to Jiangyin, and Qiu Jianyou, the pseudo-Changzhou prefect of Meizhou, led the puppet officials of Changzhou counties to surrender to Jiangyin. Five days later, the Emperor went to the mouth of the Sanjiang River, the puppet officials of Yangzhou and Zhenjiang Prefecture each led their subordinates to surrender, the Emperor counted the crimes of the salt merchants in Yangzhou, and issued an order to confiscate the assets of the salt merchants in Yangzhou, and three days later, the Emperor led the Nanyang Fleet and the First Marine Brigade to Nanjing.

Nanking.

"God Emperor, it seems that the Tartars are not ready to surrender!"

Marine Corps commander Xu Hui looked at Nanjing City in the distance and said.

This time there was no one to meet the surrender.

This is also normal.

Those who surrendered before, in fact, have no worries, or it can be said that their hometowns have been ended, including those who are about to be ended, such as Sun Shanbao and Gong Mujiu, their hometown is Dongping, and the Ming army has been sandwiched from the north and south at this time and is about to meet in Jining, although they have not really crossed the Yellow River, but in fact, Dongping's capture will not take a few days, at this time surrender can at least strive for leniency for the family. As for Shu Huamin and Qiu Jianyou's hometown, it has been served a long time ago, and their family's land and property should have been divided early, and it can be broken and broken, but if You Bo's family is in the core control area of Daoguang, then he has no choice but to be loyal to death. Other families in Zhili, Henan, Shandong and other places will follow the trend at this time, anyway, it is a matter of time before these places fall into the hands of Yang Feng, Daoguang has made it clear that he does not want the Central Plains, even if they surrender, their families will definitely not be affected.

After all, Daoguang really wants to be connected, and those family members of theirs are not easy to mess with.

Daoguang still has to rely on these people as a buffer!

But this Nanjing is different, not only the Han people in this city but also the garrison of the Eight Banners, and this is the largest Eight Banners settlement area in the south, at this time, almost the entire Jiangnan garrison of the remnants of the Eight Banners are concentrated in Nanjing! Not only did they flee from Guangzhou, Fujian and other places one after another, but even the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou actually withdrew to Nanjing, after all, Hangzhou is very dangerous, and Nanjing is at least safer, but no one expected that Yang Feng actually entered the Yangtze River in this way, not to attack Hangzhou first but to directly copy Nanjing, and finally tens of thousands of Eight Banners under the two generals of Jiangning and Hangzhou were all blocked in Jiangning......

Well, tens of thousands of old and weak women and children in the Eight Banners.

Their young men had long since been exhausted on the battlefield or fled to Guanzhong with Monk Lingqin, where there were only old and weak women and children.

However, the militarized organization and desperate situation made these old and weak women and children also armed, and they took advantage of the fact that Li Xingyuan, the governor of Liangjiang, with the regimental training and the green battalion were on the front line in Anqing, and there was no chance for the Han army in the city, so they quickly put those officials who intended to surrender under house arrest, and took control of the city of Nanjing, preparing to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty here......

Just like in the original history.

It should be said that their strength is still quite strong, especially this Nanjing is the logistics base of the Anqing front, hoarding a large number of weapons and ammunition, whether it is field artillery or flintlock guns, and even a small number of imitation Baker rifles in Suzhou, these are all used by Dezhubu, at this moment on the Nanjing city wall, it can be said that it is densely packed with cannons and flintlock guns, and there is also food, under normal circumstances, it is no problem to last for a year. As for the Han people in the city, those gentry actually want to sit and watch, anyway, even if Yang Feng successfully takes over Nanjing, they will be unlucky, since this is the case, they simply stay out of the matter, and as long as they don't take the lead, the simple people still can't make trouble, after all, those flag girls who patrol the streets with flintlock pistols can also kill.

Of course, this is of little use.

The city wall of Nanjing could not withstand the continuous bombardment of six-inch flowering bombs, so it was enough to put the battleships out of the way, although because of the draft problem, the captured British battleships were left at Wusongkou, but only fourteen capital ships also bombarded the city of Nanjing.

"God Emperor, the ministers are willing to open Nanjing in one go!"

Xu Hui pleaded.

"Well, you don't have to!"

Yang Feng smiled and said.

"Send the decree to Li Xingyuan, I will wait under this Nanjing city, he is the governor of the Tatar Liangjiang, he has to surrender in this Nanjing city if he wants to surrender, tell him and the green battalion and regimental training generals on the front line, unless they open the Nanjing gate to welcome me into the city, otherwise they don't need to surrender!"

Then the God Emperor said.

Why did he waste the lives of the Ming army to fight with those Eight Banners?

The latter clearly does not want to live.

There are at least 20,000 old and weak women and children in the Eight Banners who can pick up arms and fight hard in this Nanjing city, and the number of soldiers in the Eight Banners here is nearly 5,000, as well as the palace and the weaving house, and there are tens of thousands of them who have been bred in two hundred years, and they consume strong men, and the remaining old and weak women and children are even if they are a family of four, so there must be 20,000 people. In addition, those who were evacuated from Hangzhou and those who fled from other places, the total number of bannermen in the city will not be less than 30,000, and if you deduct 10,000, you will have to take 20,000 if you can't hold a weapon, these people can no longer fight, as long as they have the belief that they will die, and use their familiarity with the terrain in the streets and alleys of Nanjing, and play Stalingrad with the Ming army, then they will have to drag at least a thousand Ming troops to their backs, not to mention that they are well-equipped, those flintlock pistols are very useful for black guns in the complex city streets and alleys, and the advantage of the Ming army's rifled guns is useless in this environment.

In this case, let those green camps and regimental exercises exert their residual heat!

They'll have to sift through it anyway.

At this time, the total strength of the foreign guns in Anqing and Quzhou has reached 40,000, and it has to be said that the gentry of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces have mobilized a lot of strength, and they can arm 40,000 Napoleonic war-era new-style army from scratch in less than four years, even with the help of the British, it is very amazing.

This army needs to be tested.

In fact, so far, whether it is Anqing or Quzhou, the two sides have not really fought a big battle, Yang Feng has long ordered Luo Gang not to attack, just need to confront and wait for him to solve the British, and these foreign gun teams definitely do not have the courage to attack, and in the end, until now the two fronts are deadlocked, so Yang Feng does not know much about the combat effectiveness of the 40,000 foreign gun team. If you want to co-opt them, you have to see their true level, just take these banner people in Nanjing City as guinea pigs, which can be regarded as a waste use, not to mention that those Qing army generals want to surrender so simply It is too cheap for them, let them take this army to the battlefield, it can be regarded as giving them a chance to atone for their crimes.

In this way, under the surprised gaze of those bannermen on the city of Nanjing, the fleet led by the Emperor of God docked at Pukou, and then a cruiser carrying the Emperor's envoy sailed upriver to Anqing.

As for the outcome, of course, there is no suspense.

At this time, the entire Liangjiang gentry understood that their general trend had gone, and the only way to resist the Emperor was to give the Qing Dynasty a funeral, a few days earlier and a few days later at most, and they didn't do this kind of thing, and they could keep some of their property if they surrendered as soon as possible, otherwise they couldn't even save their lives, let alone land and property. Especially after the Ming economic policy was clear, the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, who were originally dominated by industry and commerce, made a choice, at the same time as surrendering along the Yangtze River, officials in Ningbo, Hangzhou and Jiaxing and other places surrendered to the nearest Ming army, the Qing army on the Quzhou front line surrendered to the Ming army on the same day that the emperor arrived in Nanjing, and the Qing army in Huai'an also surrendered to the Ming army in Haizhou, except for northern Anhui and Anqing, most places in Liangjiang and Zhejiang have surrendered to the emperor.

After the envoy arrived in Anqing, Li Xingyuan, the governor of Liangjiang from Hunan, Wang Zhi, the governor and governor of Anhui from Baoding, Qian Baochen, the governor and governor of Jiangxi after Qian Biao from Taicang, and Dou Zhenbiao, the governor of the Yangtze River Navy Division from Guangdong, all led their subordinates to serve the edict.

Then they began to go down the river.

At present, these people are under the command of a total of 40 large gunboats equivalent to sixth-class ships under the Yangtze River Naval Division, a 30,000-strong foreign gun team, and 10,000 green battalions equipped with flintlock pistols. These people have hundreds of thousands! It's nothing more than to give severance pay to some of the rice seeds cultivated by the god emperor, let them go home and try to plant them themselves, anyway, these guys are farmers hired from all over the place, they will like these, in short, these miscellaneous cards are handed over to Luo Outline to deal with on the spot, especially some flag officers and local officials also need to clean up, in addition, Luo Outline also needs to take over Wuhu, Taiping, Chaohu These territories along the line, these sweeping work will be handed over to him.

The Yangtze River Naval Division headed by Li Xingyuan, together with 40,000 new-style regimental training and green battalions, went straight down the river to Nanjing.

They are fighting for themselves.

Everyone understands that the God Emperor is giving them a chance, and if they behave well, maybe they will serve the new dynasty! If the performance is not good, then the God Emperor may have to settle the ledger with his anger! At that time, it was also possible to send their whole family to Nanyang with an order.

This is to give them a chance to get away from the South Seas.

In this way, these former pillars of the Qing Dynasty, who had worked hard to resist the Ming Dynasty, took the most modern army of the Qing Dynasty that they also formed to resist the Ming Dynasty, and after the 22 six-inch main guns of the Nanyang Fleet collapsed the Nanjing city wall with more than 1,000 shells in a gap of 30 zhang wide, and then in the shouts, they rushed into Nanjing to clean up the future capital for the Ming Dynasty, slaughtered their old masters, and then welcomed their new masters into the city......

It is said that this is called the Qing Palace.